CDE & CDHA affiliates and graduate students presented a wide array of excellent research at the Population Association of America meetings last month. 57 affiliates appeared 104 times on the program! Two students won awards …
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CDE Affiliates Berger and Smeeding Win Major Awards
Congratulations to Lonnie Berger, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research in the Social Sciences and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Social Work, for receiving the 2022 Social Policy Researcher Award from the Society for Social Work …
New Grant Program Connects Wisconsin Idea to Statewide Research
For nearly 120 years, the Wisconsin Idea has shaped UW–Madison and the university’s commitment to public service. Based on the principle that education should influence people’s lives beyond the boundaries of the classroom, the Wisconsin …
Tiffany Green Receives Funding to Study the Effects of New Medicaid Birth Cost Recovery Policy on Black Parents
CDE affiliate Tiffany Green is the recipient of a highly-competitive grant from the New Investigator Program from the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the School of Medicine and Public Health. The New Investigator funding provides support …
UW CORE: Working toward Reproductive Health Equity Amid a Rapidly Changing Reproductive Policy Landscape
At the Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE), CDE affiliate Jenny Higgins leads a team of scholars that conducts high-quality, rigorous, policy-relevant, and community-engaged interdisciplinary research on reproductive health and healthcare, both nationally and locally within …
Upcoming Events at CDE: Mark Your Calendars!
Summer DemSem 2022 Causal Inference Short Course May 17-24: CDE affiliates are invited to participate in a 5-day short course led by Scott Cunningham (Economics, Baylor), author of Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Virtual training from …
Graduate Training Program Update
A hearty congratulations to Ariane Ophir, who completed her PhD in Sociology in the summer. A family sociologist who uses quantitative methods to understand how population dynamics (re)produce or undermine gender inequality, Ophir’s dissertation examined …
Research Focus: Leigh Senderowicz
Leigh Senderowicz is a postdoctoral researcher in the Health Disparities Research Scholars (HDRS) program—an interdisciplinary training program based in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine and Public Health. Senderowicz is …
Nine Affiliates Secure New Federal Grants from NICHD
Over the last few months, several CDE affiliates received grants from NICHD to explore a range of topics affecting population dynamics and health. Congratulations to Lawrence Berger and Jennifer Dykema, Marcy Carlson, Monica Grant, Katherine …
Affiliate Updates: Postdoctoral Fellows, Faculty Honors, and Awards
CDE welcomed four new postdocs: Guadalupe Aguilera of the Health Disparities Research Scholars program, Jane Seymour, who is conducting research at the UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity, directed by affiliate Jenny Higgins, and Laura E. …